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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: Compiler for Windows
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 08:51:25 -0800
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 16:29:25 +0000
"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:

> On 07-Jan-19 4:15 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 07:51:38AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:  
> >> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 10:56:57 +0000
> >> "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:
> >>  
> >>> On 03-Jan-19 6:33 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:  
> >>>> What about Gcc under the WSL thing (ie Linux emulation in Windows).
> >>>> Much better than Cygwin type stuff.
> >>>>      
> >>>
> >>> WSL is dog-slow with any kind of disk I/O, at least currently, so while
> >>> i do use WSL to fool my IDE into thinking it's running on Linux, the
> >>> actual compilation user experience is horrible.
> >>>  
> >>
> >> The newest version uses Hyper-V to run Linux kernel in VM and is better.
> >> Probably all still has issues with translation to NTFS.  
> 
> Yes, but it takes a while for "newest versions" to trickle down on our 
> dev machines :)
> 
> > 
> > But is running that going to produce windows binaries rather than linux
> > ones?
> >   
> 
> I believe it's producing Linux binaries, not Windows ones. So probably a 
> non-starter.
> 

It would produce Linux binaries. It should be possible to convince it to do
Windows binaries some how. Just hoping there was a way to build DPDK
with standard tools and not having to use cygwin.